Ishmael

"Leviathan is of the prime and primal world, unmodified by mankind"

"Some sort of entity or intelligence must surely dwell within that monstrous form"

"I felt a melting in me; a long-drawn, high-drawn ache of the innermost centre of the soul"

"Call me Ishmael."

"Some certain significance lurks in all things, else all things are little worth."

"Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian."

"Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul, I account it high time to get to sea."

"For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti."

"There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness."

"To be enraged with rage, but powerless in its execution."

"He too worships fire; most faithful, broad, baronial vassal of the sun!"

"Shipmates, this book is bound in the skin of landAnimals."

"Better sleep with a cannibal than a Christian!"

"I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing."

"White is a dumb fulness and a blank."

"How can the prisoner reach outside except by thrusting through the wall?"

"Aye, the three Mates are the three Fates."

"All are born equal; but some are equaller than others."

"It is the easiest thing in the world for a man to look as if he had a great secret in him."

"There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair called life."

"Humanity is but a step; but what a step it is!"

"The great Heidelburgh Tun of the Sperm Whale."

"Thou art unsounded, unpenetrated, salt, and eternal."

"Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian."

"There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness."

"Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul."

"Some certain significance lurks in all things."

"Call me Ishmael."

"The great Heidelburg Tun of the Sperm Whale."

"There is a rope wound around me."